Technology
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Politics
ALL
100
These 2 social media technologies helped launch revolutions in the Middle East in 2011.
What are twitter and the Facebook?
100
What the acronym, "NAFTA" stands for.
What is North American Free Trade Agreement?
100
The South Asian country where women worked in garment factories for low pay to earn money for their families.
What is Sri Lanka?
100
The decades that the scramble for Africa took place.
What is 1880 to 1900?
100
The simple definition of globalization.
What is the world getting smaller?
200
How the social media sites were used for in 2011 in the Middle Eastern revolutions.
What is, to plan where to hold protests/demonstrations?
200
Known today as austerity, the phrase for forcing countries to cut back spending.
What are structural adjustment demands?
200
Type of garments made in factories where women worked against the rules of their own society.
What are bras and underwear (panties and knickers)?
200
According to Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness, he is the most vile person responsible for the rape of Africa during the scramble.
Who is King Leopold II?
200
Country where peasants are practically forced to create fake forest plantations to feed the massive need for lumber in pulp or wood chips.
What is Chile?
300
A type of technology launched in the 1980s that allowed the world to communicate instantly via voice.
What is cellular phone technology?
300
The meaning of "free trade."
What is no tariffs (taxes) to import/export goods from another country.
300
Because of the culturally sensitive topic, women in the South Asian island country acquire their own personal undergarments in this way.
What is they make them at home?
300
The agreement that happened at the Berlin Conference in 1884.
What is, European countries took apart Africa to control it amongst themselves?
300
Country where the Amazon has been depleted, leading to environmental change in the planet.
What is Brazil (home of the lambada)?
400
Term for the Middle Eastern revolutions of 2011/
What is the Arab Spring?
400
The immediate reaction by some peasant farmers in Mexico to NAFTA.
What is revolt against Mexico's government?
400
The way the community treated women who worked in the garment factories.
What is with contempt and disdain (looked down upon)?
400
Name 1 product (besides gold) Africa was raped for in the scramble for Africa.
What is diamonds, rubber, palm oil?
400
Explain globalization in terms of the environment.
What is: when industries, countries, populations pollute the environment (air, water, soil) or deplete resources (forests, water, etc.) it has a corrosive effect on the rest of the planet...and kills it.
500
One country/city where the Middle Eastern revolutions took place in 2011.
What is Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen? (Tunis, Cairo, Tripoli, Sanaa)
500
Explain how NAFTA was good for American manufacturing/factories.
What is they could establish plants down in Mexico because they could hire cheap labor?
500
Women working in the garment factories was such a cultural shock for these reasons.
What is, because seeing or touching underwear was attributed to being dirty or promiscuous.
500
The difference between imperialism and colonialism.
What is colonialism means migration of people, imperialism means political or government dominance of another group.
500
Under globalization, what now happens in one part of the world...
What is, has an effect on the entire world?
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